HP Storage Essentials V5.00.01 user guide (T4283-96012, January 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.00.01 User Guide 349
10 Managing Backups
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, Backup Manager may not be available. See the “List of
Features” to determine if you have access to Backup Manager. The “List of Features” is accessible
from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About Backup Manager” on page 349
• ”Requirements for Using Backup Manager” on page 350
• ”Accessing Backup Manager” on page 351
• ”Determining if Last Night’s Backup was Successful” on page 351
• ”Determining if You Have Enough Media to Run a Backup” on page 354
• ”About the User Interface” on page 355
• ”About the Summary Backup Charts” on page 364
• ”About the Tabs in the Lower Pane” on page 368
• ”Modifying Summary Backup Charts” on page 371
• ”Viewing Charts for a Master Server” on page 373
• ”Printing Summary Charts” on page 373
About Backup Manager
Backup Manager lets you do the following:
• Monitor the overall status of the backup process
• Visualize the backup configuration and recoverability of a file, directory, volume or a server
• View the status of the physical infrastructure supporting the backup process, backup application,
backup server, network, tape library and media
• Provide information on reasons for backup failures and advisory information for configuring new
backup schedules.
Backup Manager monitors your backup applications running on discovered hosts. To determine
which backup applications are supported, refer to the support matrix, which is accessible from the
Documentation Center.
IMPORTANT: Additional steps are required before you can use Backup Manager. See
”Requirements for Using Backup Manager” on page 350 for more information.
The management server is able to detect the following after you obtain backup details: